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Hope Solo's 17-year-old nephew pulled a gun on the soccer star Saturday, reportedly trying to stop her from attacking him and his mother.
Didn't work. … allegedly.
The teenager told police that Solo was intoxicated when she arrived at the Washington state home where the incident took place, according to TMZ.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist pleaded not guilty to two counts of fourth-degree domestic violence stemming from an early morning altercation with her sister and nephew. She was released without bail, ordered not to have contact with the alleged victims and to not drink alcohol.
The nephew told police that Solo became agitated when she thought he spoke poorly of her, prompting her to tell him he could never be a professional athlete because he was "too fat and crazy."
Why would anyone want to speak poorly of someone like that?
He also allegedly tried to walk away, but Solo called him a name that usually means less than manly, because he called for his mother.
That's when the unnamed nephew decided to escalate things.
"I then went into a back room and got an old gun that does not work, pointed it at her and she kept coming at me. She didn't leave but walked around me, cornering me like a shark," he told TMZ.
The goalie for the Seattle Reign FC in the National Women's Soccer League then supposedly left and came back, attacking the boy's mother. The 17-year-old allegedly defended his mom by hitting Solo in the head with a broomstick, which he said didn't really stop her.
This isn't the first time Solo's name has been mentioned in connection with allegations of violence.
In November 2012, Solo's fiance, NFL star Jerramy Stevens, was arrested for allegedly assaulting her at their Kirkland home. Solo married him the next day and no charges were filed.
Solo also made headlines in 2012 by writing in her book, "Solo: A Memoir of Hope," that while competing on "Dancing With the Stars" with pro dancer Maksim Chmerkovskiy, her partner "manhandled" and "slapped" her during rehearsals. She also wrote that her former soccer coach, Greg Ryan, pushed her during a confrontation at the World Cup in 2007. Both men denied the claims.
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After years of decline, US births back on the rise?
September 7, 2013
By MIKE STOBBE
The number of babies born last year — a little shy of 4 million — is only a few hundred less than the number in 2011, according to a government report released Friday.
That suggests that lately, fewer couples may be scared away from having children because of the economy or other factors, some experts say. Among the signs of a possible turning point: The birth rate for women in their early 30s inched up for the first time since 2007.
"We may be on level course or potentially even see a rise" in birth trends in the near future, said Brady Hamilton, a statistician with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Some are a bit more pessimistic.
"The decline has slowed down, but it's still a decline," said Carol Hogue, an Emory University expert on birth trends.
Falling births is a relatively new phenomenon in this country. Births were on the rise since the late 1990s and hit an all-time high of more than 4.3 million in 2007. The drop that followed was widely attributed to the nation's flagging economy. Experts believed that many women or couples who were out of work or had other money problems felt they couldn't afford to start or add to their family.
The economy officially was in a recession from December 2007 until June 2009. But well into 2011, polls showed most Americans remained gloomy, citing anemic hiring, a depressed housing market and other factors.
The new CDC report is a first glimpse at 2012 birth certificate data from state health departments, but the numbers aren't expected to change much.
Highlights of the report include:
— The birth rate for all women of childbearing age — 63 births per 1,000 women — was essentially flat from the year before.
— Rates dropped for Hispanic women, 2 percent, and blacks, 1 percent, but less than the previous year. The rate continued to stay the same for whites, rose 4 percent for Asian-American and Pacific Islanders, and fell slightly for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
— Rates fell again for women in their early 20s, down 3 percent from 2011. That's the lowest mark for women in that age group since 1940, when comprehensive national birth records were first compiled.
— For women in their late 20s, birth rates fell 1 percent. That age group accounts for more than a quarter of all of the nation's births. The rate rose a slight 1 percent for women in their early 30s, who have nearly as many babies as women in their late 20s.
— Rates also rose 2 percent for moms ages 35 and older, and 1 percent for women in their early 40s. Rates in older moms have been rising slightly in recent years, despite the overall downward trend. Experts say that's because older women generally have better jobs or financial security, and are more sensitive to the ticking away of their biological clocks.
— Birth rates for teen moms have been falling since 1991 and hit yet another historic low. The number of babies born to teens last year — about 305,000 — is less than half the peak of nearly 645,000 in 1970.
The teen birth rate has been cut in half since 1991, said Bill Albert of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, who called it a "stunning turnaround."
Experts attribute that decline to a range of factors, including less sex and more use of contraception.
Another report highlight: About 33 percent of births last year were delivered through Cesarean section — a rate unchanged from the previous two years.
C-sections are sometimes medically necessary. But health officials believe many are done out of convenience or unwarranted caution, and in the 1980s set a goal of keeping the national rate at 15 percent.
The C-section rate had been rising steadily since 1996, until it dropped slightly in 2010.
Even if the C-section rate has peaked, it's still too high — particularly in certain states, Emory's Hogue said. For example, last year 40 percent of births were C-sections in Louisiana, and more than 38 percent in New Jersey, Mississippi and Florida, the report found.
"There's a lot of room for improvement," she said.

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Vegetarian tacos
To make this meal more filling, while the taco filling is heating, stir in beans, such as kidney or garbanzo beans. You can arrange the taco filling and condiments buffet-fashion and allow family or guests to assemble their own tacos.
2 tablespoons canola oil
3 cups sliced mushrooms
1 medium zucchini, sliced
1 carrot, coarsely shredded
¼ cup coarsely chopped onion
1 clove garlic, minced
2 tomatoes, cut into ½-inch cubes
One 8-ounce can tomato sauce
1 tablespoon chili powder
¼ teaspoon ground cumin
Dash of Tabasco sauce, or to taste
8 packaged taco shells
2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
¼ head lettuce, finely shredded
Bottled taco hot sauce
Garnish (optional): orange slices, alfalfa sprouts
Preheat the oven to 350° F.
Heat the oil in a large nonstick saute pan over medium-high heat. Stir in the mushrooms, zucchini, carrot, onion, and garlic; cook, stirring occasionally, until the zucchini is crisp-tender, about 4 minutes. Stir in about half of the tomatoes, tomato sauce, chili powder, cumin, and hot pepper sauce. Reduce the heat to medium; cover and cook for about 5 minutes. Taste and adjust the seasoning.
Meanwhile, arrange the taco shells on a baking sheet; warm in the oven for about 5 minutes.
To serve, spoon the vegetable mixture into the taco shells. Top with cheese, lettuce, and the remaining tomato. Drizzle with taco sauce.
Advance Preparation
The taco filling will keep for up to 3 days in a covered container in the refrigerator; reheat the filling and assemble the tacos just before serving.


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Southern state has become epicenter of religious assaults, Christians say.
NEW DELHI, February 4 (CDN) — Karnataka state recorded the highest number of anti-Christian attacks in India last year, and it is keeping pace this year.
Christians in Karnataka are being attacked "at rapid regularity" and "with near impunity," and it is "a serious matter of concern for the Christian community," said Dr. Babu Joseph, spokesperson of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI).
Much of the violence occurs under the vigilante pretext of rounding up Christians supposedly involved in "forcible" or "fraudulent" conversion efforts. On Monday (Feb. 1) in Thagadur village, Kodagu district, Hindu extremists dragged 11 Christians – including four women – from their homes and colluded with police to arrest them on such false charges.
The Global Council of Indian Christians reported that all of the Christians, members of the Beraka Gospel Church in Suntikupa village, were tortured at the Siddapur police station to pressure them to admit to the charges. Most of the jailed Christians are tribal, daily wage laborers who work on coffee plantations.
Police denied torturing the Christians, but like many people in India easily confused by Hindu extremist propaganda, Inspector Ratan Singh of the Siddapur police station seemed to erroneously believe that laws against fraudulent conversion apply to any kind of proclamation of faith.
"According to the complaint we received, the accused were inviting local Hindus for prayer meetings to convert them," Singh told Compass, as if such activity were illegal in India. "We did not beat them. When they were produced before the judicial magistrate, they said they were not mistreated by the police."
The GCIC recorded 72 attacks on Christians in Karnataka in 2009. That represents a decline from the 112 attacks the previous year, when three months of anti-Christian violence in Orissa state's Kandhamal district in 2008 led Hindu extremists in Karnataka to lash out as well, according to Christian leaders.
Justice Michael F. Saldanha, a retired judge of the Karnataka High Court and president of the Catholic Association of South Kanara (a district in Karnataka also known as Dakshina Kannada), told Compass that attacks on Christians in the state increased after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) began to rule.
In May 2008 the BJP came to power in Karnataka, thus making it the first southern state with a stand-alone BJP government in the history of India. The party's rule was preceded by a 20-month rule in alliance with a local party, the Janata Dal (Secular).
Although Karnataka has had a dominant presence of the Hindu extremist Sangh Parivar since 1950, its cadres obtained free rein only after the BJP's electoral victory, Saldanha explained.
"The real headquarters of the Sangh Parivar is not in Maharashtra [official headquarters of the Hindu extremist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or RSS, in Nagpur), it's in Karnataka," said Saldanha, who conducted a private inquiry into a series of attacks that rocked Karnataka in September 2008 following the unprecedented anti-Christian bloodbath in Orissa state's Kandhamal district.
Between Aug. 17 and Sept. 21, 2008, more than 28 attacks on churches, led mainly by the Hindu extremist Bajrang Dal, a Sangh Parivar offshoot, were reported from various parts of Karnataka.
Saldanha pointed out that Brahmins, the highest or priestly class in the caste hierarchy in Hinduism, from Udupi district and Mangalore city in neighboring Dakshina Kannada district played a special role in leading the Hindu right-wing movement. The retired judge also accused the BJP government of supporting Sangh Parivar outfits with public money.
"The Karnataka government gives money to right-wing groups for festivals in the name of celebrations, and also through donations to certain temples," he said.
Agreeing with Saldanha, the CBCI's Joseph said the violence in Karnataka points to a "decline in civility and collapse of administration."
"It is indeed sad that Karnataka, which enjoyed communal harmony and social amity for so long, has recently been pushed into the cycle of hate crimes perpetrated by the extreme elements in society that do not believe in mutual tolerance or acceptance," Joseph said.
Karnataka Gov. H.R. Bhardwaj reportedly said earlier this week that protection of people's lives and liberties, including the right to propagate their religion, was "the essence of Indian democracy."
The governor said it was the responsibility of the state government "to see that nobody is allowed to flout the democratic norms and laws of the land," acknowledging a rise in the incidence of attacks against churches, reported Daijiworld.
His comments came a day after an attack on a glass painting of the Virgin Mary at the entrance arch of the Canara Organisation for Development and Peace building in Nantoor area on Saturday (Jan. 30).
On that day Christians held a silent protest in Mysore, and on Monday (Feb. 1) Christians in Mangalore protested in like fashion against increasing attacks on them.
On Jan. 28, unidentified people burned down a church in Raipura area in Molakalmuru town in Chitradurga district. The Jesus Loves Holy Temple Church turned into ashes, reported GCIC.
Two Catholic churches were attacked in Mysore and Uttara Kannada districts on Jan. 25. Unidentified people reportedly broke a statue of Mary on the compound wall of the Holy Family Church in Hinkal village in the wee hours in Mysore district. In the other incident, glass panes covering the statue of Mary were broken at St. Anthony Church in the Pernamakki area in Uttara Kannada district.
At 2:30 a.m. this morning, unidentified people broke into a Catholic church and vandalized it in the Malavalli area of Mandya district, reported the Karnataka-based GCIC. The cross, statues and musical instruments in the St. Mathias Church were destroyed, it said, adding that the parish priest filed a complaint at the Malavalli police station.
'Lip Service'
Echoing claims of the Hindu nationalist BJP, Karnataka State Minorities Commission member Anthony Fernandez said he does not believe there is any reason for concern.
"Some elements are simply trying to tarnish the image of the state government," he said.
Fernandez acknowledged, however, that the Hindu nationalist Sri Ram Sene (Army of God Rama) was involved in some attacks. The Sri Ram Sene is believed to be a splinter group from the Sangh Parivar family of organizations under the RSS.
Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Jan. 28 warned those who vandalize religious places, saying he would have their hands "chopped off."
"I, the chief minister of Karnataka, am saying I will chop off their hands," Yeddyurappa was quoted as saying by Headlines Today news channel.
The CBCI's Joseph said "lip service" by the government was "no longer enough."
"It has to show results on the ground that it means business in tackling the menace of communal elements," he said. "Unprovoked violence against fellow citizens in the name of religion is pernicious, and it must stop forthwith, or else the impression may gain ground that the administration of the day is colluding with criminal and extreme elements in vitiating the social harmony for short term political gains – something this country can ill afford in the long run."
Report from Compass Direct News


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That quilt is simply gorgeous!ReplyDelete
So very beautiful!ReplyDelete
I love how you explain things - it helps me a lot! :)ReplyDelete
It's beautiful! Your fabric mix is awesome as usual!ReplyDelete
The new owner is a very lucky person. The quilt is wonderful. All the straight-line quilting! I would probably lose my mind before I finished all that stitching. It really is perfect for the quilt, though.ReplyDelete
This quilt is really beautiful. Thanks so much for all the info about how you quilted it. I love straight line quilting.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous Rita! I wondered of you increased your stitch length because your stitches always look quite small in the photos. It's good to know they're not because there's no way I could quilt anything without increasing the length considerably!ReplyDelete
Rita - the quilt is gorgeous. I absolutely love straight line quilting! I would have a hard time parting with that too!!ReplyDelete
that is to die for!! i love it! in fact, i just dug up my copy of sew hip, and am planning my own! this will be for my soon to be bub- so i have about 8 weeks to get it done : )am going to be using lots of Japanese linen fabric, so cant wait to get cutting!!
thanks for the inspiration, hope my turns out half as good as this one
Gorgeous quilt!! I love the back particularly, because it shows off your fabulous quilting really well.ReplyDelete
My oh my it's spectacular!!! xtReplyDelete
That is truly beautiful, and I just know the lucky recipient will be very happy with it! It is so hard to let them go, though - I just finished a two-day quilting job on one and it was very hard to let it go to its new owner!!! Thanks so much for sharing!ReplyDelete
Its stunning Rita! I've been collecting fabrics for a similar type of quilt!~ May I ask what size blocks these you used for this one? And did you literally piece each block instead of using any shortcuts like strip-piecing? Just wondered :-)ReplyDelete
Wonderful finish and very effective quilting! The new owners are sure to love it!ReplyDelete
Gah - that is fantastic! Love reading all your little quilting tid-bits of knowledge, as it is something I want to try very soon.ReplyDelete
Really stunning quilt. And thank you so much for the info tidbits such as stitch size, etc. I'm interested as well in whether how you put it all together. Thanks again!ReplyDelete
As per usual, you are Ye Veritable Font of Quilty Knowledge. As well as INSPIRED! Utterly gorgeous stuff.ReplyDelete
Beautiful quilt!ReplyDelete
Simply gorgeous and VERY inspiring!! I am going to use this method for my next quilt!ReplyDelete
This is just gorgeous. You do beautiful work. I've got a quilt that I need to re-baste right now. I think I'll try pins. I did a basting stitch first time around and didn't get the top tight enough. After about seven or eight rows and columns of stitching I finally had to admit it wasn't right and set to ripping out the stitches...ReplyDelete
this is so so beautiful..i love the colorReplyDelete
A beautiful quilt and thanks for the explanation of the stitch sizes, and how to make sure the quilt doesn't pucker when quilting in this way.ReplyDelete
Love your work Mrs!!!ReplyDelete
BEAUTIFUL! I love this pattern - another great design Rita.ReplyDelete
I love this!ReplyDelete
your quilting is just so perfect Rita. I don't know how you do it. I aspire to such perfection and I'd be over the moon if my quilting looked like yours!ReplyDelete
OH I love this one - need to get out my copy and make one....the quilting just makes it amazing!ReplyDelete
Stunning quilt Rita - both the front and back are divine. I particulary like how the quilting looks on the back.ReplyDelete
I adore this quilt. The fabrics, the piecing, the quilting, everything about it is amazing. I love how you can see the intersection of quilting in the back.
I have the same sewing machine and use the same stitch lenght, funny huh?
Another beautiful quilt! Your work is lovely and I don't know how you can part with it! SuzReplyDelete
Oh I have to say I LOVE that quilt & the quilting (I like the longer quilt stitched too!). You have the most amazing fabrics! I always enjoy seeing what you make.ReplyDelete
I do love this one, but I think your backs are too good to be backs, they would make great fronts!!! Fabulous quilting, it was worth the boredom factor! xoReplyDelete
Just gorgeous! Your quilting is amazing and looks sooo perfect. I'd never dare straight line quilting as it would show up just how wonky my piecing is :)ReplyDelete
Ooooh, I love it just as much as your banner quilt!ReplyDelete
I'm glad you want to write a thorough basting technique post. I think I have no idea what you mean about the tension between the top and bottom! Lots to learn, for sure. Looking forward to it.ReplyDelete
I love the white, it really opens up the quilt. The colors are very clean looking, I like that.
I absolutely agree with your comment about basting, it all starts there. The more safety pins the better!
The quilting is gorgeous, lines take alot longer than one would initially think!
that pattern that the quilting lines make on the quilt back is very beautiful. you've done a wonderful job.ReplyDelete
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ATLANTA - For the first time, the government is estimating how many people die from drug-resistant bacteria each year - more than 23,000, or about as many as those killed annually by flu.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the number Monday to spotlight the growing threat of germs that are hard to treat because they've become resistant to drugs.
Finally estimating the problem sends "a very powerful message," said Dr. Helen Boucher, a Tufts University expert and spokeswoman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America. "We're facing a catastrophe."
Antibiotics like penicillin and streptomycin first became widely available in the 1940s, and today dozens are used to kill or suppress the bacteria behind illnesses ranging from strep throat to the plague. The drugs are considered one of the greatest advances in the history of medicine, and have saved countless lives.
But as decades passed, some antibiotics stopped working against the bugs they previously vanquished. Experts say their overuse and misuse have helped make them less effective.
In a new report, the CDC tallied the toll of the 17 most worrisome drug-resistant bacteria. The result: Each year, more than 2 million people develop serious infections and at least 23,000 die.
Of those, the staph infection MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, kills about 11,000, and a new superbug kills about 600. That bacteria withstand treatment with antibiotics called carbapenems - considered one of the last lines of defense against hard-to-treat bugs.
Germs like those have prompted health officials to warn that if the situation gets much worse, it could make doctors reluctant to do surgery or treat cancer patients if antibiotics won't protect their patients from getting infections.
"If we're not careful, the medicine chest will be empty" when doctors need infection-fighting drugs, said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden.
It's not clear that the problem is uniformly growing worse for all bugs. Some research suggests, for example, that MRSA rates may have plateaued and a separate CDC report released Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine found that serious MRSA infections declined 30 percent between 2005 and 2011.
MRSA bacteria have been the target of many hospital infection control efforts. These germs often live without symptoms on the skin, but also can cause skin or tissue infections, and become more dangerous when they enter the bloodstream.
Serious, invasive MRSA declined in all settings for a total of 80,461 infections in 2011, the journal report found. Most were linked with health care in people who'd recently been hospitalized or received other medical treatment. But for the first time, the more than 16,000 infections picked up in community settings outnumbered the 14,000 infections that began in the hospital.
A 2005-2010 study in the same journal suggests that pig manure might be a cause of some mostly less serious MRSA infections in people living near fertilized farm fields.
The study is based on patients from Danville, Pa.-based Geisinger Health System. It offers only circumstantial evidence, but the authors said the MRSA link is plausible because antibiotics are widely used on pig farms and other livestock operations to enhance animal growth, and the drugs are found in pig manure.
The study involved nearly 3,000 MRSA cases, about half of them not linked with health-care. The authors estimated that living near pig manure-fertilized fields may have accounted for about 11 percent of MRSA not linked with health care.
But how the germs might spread from pig manure to people with no close animal contact is uncertain, the study authors said. Close contact with an infected person or sharing personal items used by an infected person is the usual way MRSA spreads.
Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University infectious disease specialist, called the report "very provocative" but inconclusive.
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Conference Series : National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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Call For Papers
February 2-7, 2018
New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Timetable for Authors
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September 8, 2017: Electronic abstracts due at 11:59 PM UTC-10 (midnight Hawaii)
September 11, 2017: Electronic papers due at 11:59 PM UTC-10 (midnight Hawaii)
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The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between
researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers in AI and
its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-18 is the Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence. It will continue the tradition of previous AAAI
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We are all very good at tunneling. In BG's epic battles can be waged around control over an uncapped node involving half the players from both sides.
When you take a breath, and look up at the scoreboard, the other team has managed to cap 3 nodes, and you only have stables. The fight over this one uncapped node has distracted your team that much that enough time has passed for the other side to get a decent lead.
The healers could be merrily healing away – you get into this zone watching green health bars, throw a fear out in your hit capped healing set so all your fears don't fail. La la laaaa la di dah, Bubble, flash, renew, Penance on a bad one, heal them up, more bubbles, oh look barriers up, fear, holy nova to stop that sneaky rogue cap. La di dahhhh
Then you realize its been going on too long and the dps your healing aren't targeting their healers
[Battleground] [ Z] Kill the healers!
[Battleground] [Z] Target their healers!
La di dah…
So at this point, you're getting ok Hk's and your healing is looking awesome on the meters ( because the other team is not targeting you either.) Technically you are doing your job. You're healing. No one is complaining about your healing, people are staying alive. What else are you supposed to do?
Walk away?
But if you walk away they will all die, and so will you most likely once that me hunter you prey instinct kicks in and the enemy team go " look squishy trying to run away kill kill kill !"
Z dies
But so do the rest of the people you're healing at an unsuccessful node cap and by that point your team now has to come back from a 3 -4 node cap.
People who fight on the roads, will stay on that road if there is a healer enabling them to fight. It's a hard thing to do, to ride past that person with half a health bar.
So yes, walking away could be the best thing you do, to enable your team to refocus because as long as they are staying alive, they will just keep tunneling


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Honorary class
There are six new members in the Bronson Hall of Fame in the Jr./Sr. High School — Charles Atkocunis, Doris Kehoe, Jesse McGuire, Elizabeth (Mayer) Miller, Clark Walker and Brian Wilber.
Their photos, most from long ago, hang on the wall in the cafeteria. While current students might not notice the old pictures, they are impacted by the lives and contribution of all the hall of fame members.
Atkocunis and Walker have passed away. Atkocunis at a ripe old age and Walker in his youth on a battle field in Vietnam but memories of the men live on.
Atkocunis was a larger-than-life coach and teacher whom Bronson graduates from his era still respect. But apparently he had a smaller than average ego. After accepting her husband's honor, Atkocunis' wife Mary said, "He would have been pleased, but when we got home he would have said, 'I was just doing my job.'"
Kehoe, now past her 90th birthday, taught special education in Bronson for 25 years and was active in the Special Olympic Program. Among other honors, she was awarded the 1982 Branch County Coach of the Year.
Following the presentation, Kehoe said being included in the Bronson Hall of Fame, is "one of the highest honors I have had. It is a crown jewel in my educational career. It is a wonderful honor."
McGuire, a 1986 Bronson graduate, was an all-around good student while setting records in both track and cross country. His children, Annie and Caleb McGuire, BHS graduates, followed in his footsteps both as good students and athletes.
McGuire said it is "kind of neat," being associated with Bronson icons such as Atkocunis, Walker and Wilber, but he quick to point out everyone else's accomplishments before his own.
"They contributed so much," McGuire said, "I could just run fast."
Miller, graduated in 1965 when the only girls sports were intramurals during lunch hour but that didn't stop her. After graduating from Western Michigan University, she was a pioneer for women's athletic programs. She taught physical education in Galien for a while before joining the staff at Lake Michigan College.
Miller was the first female athletic director for both men's and women's sports in the state of Michigan while on staff at the college. Then she was hired as a softball coach at the University of Notre Dame.
When visiting Bronson, Miller was surrounded by a host of relatives and the memories of other inductees.
Being selected was "very humbling," Miller said. She knew the legendary Atkocunis and Walker well.
"Clark Walker — I graduated with him. (His death was) such a waste," she said.
A great value of small towns is the memories community members holds for each other even after decades, Miller said.
Walker, a 1965 graduate died in Vietnam in 1967 just after his 20th birthday. He made wrestling history under the direction of Atkocunis while in high school and his memory lives on nearly a half-century later.
During the ceremony the announcer read, "on Jan. 27, 1967 (Walker's) platoon was on a search and destroy mission against Viet Cong forces when they encountered intense fire from Viet Cong machine guns.
"Clark put his body in front of one of his fellow wounded soldier who had been hit by enemy fire and couldn't walk. While shielding his comrade, he radioed for air help for his platoon.
"While doing this, Clark was fatally wounded by return fire from the Viet Cong. Through Clark's act of bravery and giving everything that he had, the rest of his platoon was rescued."
While the announcer read, Candy Minor who was accepting the honor in her bother's memory, tried unsuccessfully to choke back tears.
She wasn't alone. Hankerchiefs came out of older men's back pockets. Wilber stood and saluted Walker's heroism and memory while the Bronson crowd voluntarily raised for standing ovation.
Following the ceremony, Minor said, "The school has supported and upheld my brother tremendously. I couldn't ask for anything more. This community is wonderful."
Wilber graduated in 1968 and went on to the University of Michigan. In 1973 he started a career in the U.S. Air Force.
While Wilber did run track in high school that wasn't his focus, he said. All he wanted to do was fly airplanes, so after school, Saturdays and Sundays he worked at the Branch County Airport — seven days a week — to earn flying lessons.
Wilber earned his pilot's license while a senior in high school and a commercial license before he started college. Wilber retired from the Air Force in 1999.
After the ceremony, Wilber reflected on the portion of his life spent in the Bronson area and what the honor means to him.
"It's a recognition from the people I grew up with that I made a contribution," Wilber said. A contribution to the country.


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Raising troubling questions about the reliability of government-mandated cryptography certifications used around the world, scientists have unearthed flaws in Taiwan's secure digital ID system that allow attackers to impersonate some citizens who rely on it to pay taxes, register cars, and file immigration papers.
The crippling weaknesses uncovered in the Taiwanese Citizen Digital Certificate program cast doubt that certifications designed to ensure cryptographic protections used by governments and other sensitive organizations can't be circumvented by adversaries, the scientists reported in a research paper scheduled to be presented later this year at the Asiacrypt 2013 conference in Bangalore, India. The flaws may highlight shortcomings in similar cryptographic systems used by other governments around the world since the vulnerable smartcards used in the Taiwanese program were advertised as having passed the FIPS 140-2 Level 2 and the Common Criteria standards. The certifications, managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its counterparts all over the world, impose a rigid set of requirements on all cryptographic hardware and software used by a raft of government agencies and contractors.
"Trivially broken keys"
The team of scientists uncovered what their paper called a "fatal flaw" in the hardware random number generator (RNG) used to ensure the numbers that form the raw materials of crypto keys aren't based on discernible patterns. Randomness is a crucial ingredient in ensuring adversaries can't break the cryptographic keys underpinning the smartcards issued to Taiwanese citizens.
Out of slightly more than 2 million 1024-bit RSA keys the researchers examined, an astonishing 184 keys were generated so poorly they could be broken in a matter of hours using known mathematical methods and standard computers to find the large prime numbers at their core. Had the keys been created correctly, breaking them so quickly would have required a large supercomputer or botnet. That even such a small percentage of keys were found to be so easily broken underscores the fragility of cryptographic protections millions of people increasingly rely on to shield their most intimate secrets and business-sensitive secrets.
"The findings are certainly significant for the citizens who have been issued flawed cards, since any attacker could impersonate them online, the research team wrote in an e-mail to Ars. "More broadly, our research should give pause to any of the many countries that are rolling out this kind of national public key infrastructure. These smart cards were certified to respected international standards of security, and errors led to them generating trivially broken cryptographic keys. If a technologically advanced government trying to follow best practices still has problems, who can get this right?"
Stacking the deck
The research is being published two weeks after documents leaked by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden outlined the covert hand intelligence agents have played in deliberately weakening international encryption standards. As a result, the NSA and its counterparts in the UK can most likely bypass many of the encryption technologies used on the Internet. Cryptographers involved in, and independent of, the research agreed that the weaknesses exposed in the paper were almost certainly the result of human error, rather than deliberate sabotage. They based that assessment on the observation that the predictable patterns caused by the malfunctioning PRNG were so easy to spot.
"Some of the primes discovered in this work are so obviously non-random that, if they were the result of deliberate weaknesses, then I'd be asking for my money back from my three-letter agency," Kenneth G. Paterson, a Royal Holloway scientist who has seen the paper, told Ars. "Because they would clearly not have been doing a very good job in hiding their footprints."
Still, the fact that Taiwan's extremely weak RNGs passed stringent validation processes is troubling. An RNG that picks prime numbers in predictable ways is in some ways the cryptographic equivalent of a blackjack croupier who arranges a deck of cards so they're dealt in a way that puts the gambler at a disadvantage. Properly implemented RNGs, to extend the metaphor, are akin to a relief dealer who thoroughly shuffles the deck, an act that in theory results in the strong likelihood the cards never have and never again will be arranged in that exact same order.
There's no way to rule out the possibility that the NSA, or intelligence agencies from other nation states, didn't already know about the vulnerability in Taiwan's crypto program or about programs in other countries that may suffer from similar weaknesses. The inability of the certifications to spot the fatally flawed RNGs suggests the standards offer far less protection than many may think against subtle flaws that either were intentionally engineered by intelligence agencies or were exploited after being discovered by them.
The researchers began their project by examining almost 2.2 million of the Taiwanese digital certificates secured with 1024-bit keys (newer cards have 2048-bit RSA keys). By scanning for pairs of distinct numbers that shared a common mathematical divisor, they quickly identified 103 keys that shared prime numbers.
A little more than 100 keys that shared primes out of a pool of 2 million makes for an
infinitesimally small minuscule percentage, but in the eye of a trained cryptographer, it flags a fatal error. When generating a 1024-bit RSA key, there are an almost incomprehensible 2502 prime numbers that can be picked to form its mathematical DNA, Mark Burnett, an IT security analyst and author, estimates. That's many orders of magnitude more than the 2266 atoms in the known universe. If all these primes are properly mixed up and evenly distributed in a large digital pot—as is supposed to happen when being processed by a correctly functioning RNG—no two primes should ever be picked twice. By definition a prime is a number greater than one that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself.
And yet, 103 of the keys flagged by the researchers factored into 119 primes. The anomaly was the first unambiguous sign that something horribly wrong had gone on during the key-generation process for the Taiwanese smartcards. But it wasn't the only indication of severe problems. The researchers sifted through the shared primes and noticed visible patterns of non-randomness that allowed them to factor an additional 81 keys, even though they didn't share primes. Once the primes are discovered, the underlying key is completely compromised. Anyone with knowledge of the primes can impersonate the legitimate card holder by forging the person's digital signature, reading their encrypted messages, and accessing any other privileges and capabilities afforded by the card.


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FBI agents work in nightmarish scene at Kenya mall
NAIROBI, Kenya - Working near bodies crushed by rubble in a bullet-scarred, scorched mall, FBI agents began fingerprint, DNA and ballistic analysis Wednesday to help determine the identities and nationalities of victims and al-Shabab gunmen who attacked the shopping center, killing more than 60 people.
A gaping hole in the mall's roof was caused by Kenyan soldiers who fired rocket-propelled grenades inside, knocking out a support column, a government official told The Associated Press. The official, who insisted he not be identified because he was sharing security information, said the soldiers fired to distract a terrorist sniper so hostages could be evacuated.
Video of the roof collapse showed massive carnage. The collapse came Monday, shortly after four large explosions rang out followed by billows of black smoke. Although a government minister said the terrorists had set mattresses on fire, causing the roof to collapse, the video showed such massive destruction that the explanation seemed unlikely to be the full story.
Al-Shabab on its Twitter feed Wednesday claimed that the Kenyan government assault team carried out "a demolition" of the building.
The current death toll is 67 and is likely to climb with uncounted bodies remaining in the wreckage of the Nairobi mall. Another 175 people were injured, including more than 60 who remain hospitalized. At least 18 foreigners were among those killed.
Al-Shabab, the Somali Islamic extremist group which carried out the attack, said Wednesday that foreigners were a "legitimate target" and confirmed witness accounts that gunmen separated Muslims from other people and let the Muslims go free. The others were gunned down or taken hostage.
"The Mujahideen carried out a meticulous vetting process at the mall and have taken every possible precaution to separate the Muslims from the Kuffar (disbelievers) before carrying out their attack," the group said in an email exchange with The Associated Press.
Witnesses have told AP and other media that gunmen rounded up people, asked questions about Islam that a Muslim would know and told the Muslims to leave the mall. Still, some Muslims were among the victims.
Also among those killed when the militants entered the Westgate Mall on Saturday, firing assault rifles and throwing grenades were six Britons and citizens from France, Canada, the Netherlands, Australia, Peru, India, Ghana, South Africa and China.
Asked if al-Shabab had intended to kill foreigners, the group said "our target was to attack the Kenyan govt on it's soil and any part of the Kenyan territory is a legitimate target ... and Kenya should be held responsible for the loss of life, whether foreigners or local."
Al-Shabab had threatened retaliation against Kenya for sending its troops into Somalia against al-Shabab, and many of those killed in an attack that horrified the world were Kenyans. The group's leader, Ahmed Godane, said in a new audio statement Wednesday that the attack was carried out in retaliation for the West's support for Kenya's Somalia invasion and the "interest of their oil companies." Somalia has untapped energy reserves. More attacks would come, Godane said, if Kenya doesn't withdraw its troops.
Though Kenya's foreign minister earlier said that "two or three" American citizens may have been involved in the attack, a Western official said that after checking passport and refugee databases, there is not yet an indication any Americans were involved. Several U.S. cities, notably Minneapolis, host large Somali-American communities.
The violence continued elsewhere Wednesday. In the Kenyan town of Wajir, which lies along the border with Somalia, one person was killed and four wounded after a gunman opened fire and threw grenades, the Interior Ministry said.
Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said forensic experts from the U.S., Israel, Britain, Germany and Canada are all taking part in trying to reconstruct the scene at the mall. He said results would not be ready before a week's time.
Morgue officials in Nairobi have been prepared for the last two days for a large influx of bodies still in the mall. Officials have told AP that the shopping center, which the terrorists held for four days, could hold dozens more bodies. The government has confirmed 72 total deaths: 61 civilians, six security forces and five attackers. The Red Cross says 71 people remain missing.
Al-Shabab said the Kenyan government assault team carried out "a demolition" of the building, burying 137 hostages in the debris. A government spokesman denied the claim and said Kenyan forces were clearing all rooms Wednesday, firing as they moved and encountering no one.
The al-Shabab claim appeared to refer to the rocket-propelled grenades fired inside the Nakumatt department store, in the incident described to AP by a government official.
In a series of tweets from a Twitter account believed to be genuine, al-Shabab also said that "having failed to defeat the mujahideen inside the mall, the Kenyan govt disseminated chemical gases to end the siege."
Kenyan government spokesman Manoah Esipisu told AP that no chemical weapons were used - including tear gas - and that the collapse of floors in the mall was caused by a fire set by the terrorists.
"Al-Shabab is known for wild allegations and there is absolutely no truth to what they're saying," he said. But officials said the death count will likely rise.
The country's interior minister in a press conference said an "inconsequential number" of bodies remained in the mall.
The mall's top level parking lot collapsed in the middle of the building. That brought the second level down onto the ground floor on top of at least eight civilians and one or more attackers, said Esipisu.
Lenku said there were no indications that a woman took part in the attack, despite persistent press speculation, and he said officials have not yet confirmed reports that the attackers had rented a shop inside the mall.
U.S. Ambassador Robert Godec said Wednesday that Washington is providing technical support and equipment to Kenyan security forces and medical responders. Godec said the U.S. is assisting the investigation to bring the attack's organizers and perpetrators to justice.
In another development, a British man was arrested in Kenya following the terrorist attack, Britain's Foreign Office said.
British officials are ready to provide assistance to the man, the agency said in a statement Wednesday. Officials would not provide his name or details. He is believed to be in his 30s. Britain's Daily Mail newspaper said he was arrested Monday as he tried to board a flight from Nairobi to Turkey with a bruised face and while acting suspiciously.
Kenyan officials have said that 11 suspects in total have been arrested in connection with the attack, including at least seven at the airport. They are being questioned, said the government spokesman.
The International Criminal Court in the Hague has said it is prepared to work with Kenya to bring the attackers to justice. ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in a statement that while Kenya has primary jurisdiction in the slaying of civilians in the Westgate Mall, the atrocity could also fall under the court's jurisdiction.
Al-Shabab, whose name means "The Youth" in Arabic, first began threatening Kenya with a major terror attack in late 2011, after Kenya sent troops into Somalia following a spate of kidnappings of Westerners inside Kenya.
The mall attack was the deadliest terrorist attack in Kenya since the 1998 al-Qaida truck bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, which killed more than 200 people.
Selsky reported from Johannesburg. Associated Press writers Rodney Muhumuza and David Rising contributed.


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God's pained servant on SundanceTV drama 'Rectify'
NEW YORK (AP) — "You mean well, don't you?" says Daniel's mother to Tawney Talbot.
"I do mean well," says Tawney, meek but insistent. "I do."
And it brings her lots of grief.
She and many others, most of them well-meaning, are troubled by Daniel Holden, who in the SundanceTV drama "Rectify" has been released from prison after 20 years on death row for the rape and murder of his teenage girlfriend. New evidence raised doubt that he had committed the crime (neither his family nor we viewers know for sure), but as he tries to settle back into his small Georgia town, its citizens feud about his right to be there.
The series, which begins a 10-episode sophomore season on Thursday (9 p.m. EDT), continues its story of loss: the town's loss of fragile equilibrium after Daniel's disruptive return; the loss, still painfully felt, of the murdered girl; the irrecoverable loss of decades in prison by Daniel, who even regaining freedom remains a lost soul.
But no one feels loss more than Tawney, threatened by a loss of faith.
Played with righteous delicacy by Adelaide Clemens, Tawney is married to Daniel's stepbrother, and in the midst of much suspicion about Daniel's innocence, even from her husband, she remains a true believer, however much her faith is tested by God's puzzling plan.
TV drama seldom notices religion, other than in warm-and-fuzzy or wild-eyed extremes.
But in "Rectify," writer-creator Ray McKinnon has crafted a universe of small but fully defined characters including Tawney, through whom he explores both the blessings and pitfalls of spiritual devotion.
"I had read a lot of scripts with Christian characters, but Tawney felt multifaceted, not stereotypical," says Clemens. "As a former foster child, she feels the religious community is something to be celebrated and embraced. Christianity is how she makes sense of the world."
Even when it makes no sense to her.
As "Rectify" resumes, Daniel (played by Aden Young) lies in a coma after having been beaten by a group of thugs including his dead girlfriend's vengeful brother.
"I just don't understand why God would let something like this happen to him," says Tawney, at his bedside, meekly, "and I don't see how I ever will."
The 24-year-old Clemens says she's "not particularly religious." But while shooting the series in Griffin, Georgia, she sought out a church to help her tap into Tawney's world.
"I had an amazing time finding the right church," she says. "On Sundays, I would try one out and say, 'Hi, I'm Adelaide, I'm here while we work on a TV show, and I want to experience this.'"
She chose Eagles Way Church, which she calls "a really gorgeous church" whose congregation welcomes everyone — even (she says with a laugh) Australians, which she happens to be.
Raised in Sydney, Clemens says she loved movies as a girl and was drawn to a style of realistic acting that seems "almost like someone made a mistake, yet it's still there on film, unpredictable."
Those cinematic appetites served her well when, at 19, she moved to Los Angeles to seek her fortune. She quickly got an agent and logged credits including the HBO miniseries "Parade's End" and last year's remake of "The Great Gatsby."
Then Ray McKinnon (who shared a 2001 Oscar for the short film "The Accountant") began casting "Rectify," selecting J. Smith-Cameron as Daniel's mother, Abigail Spencer as his sister and Clayne Crawford as Tawney's husband.
Intrigued by Tawney's winsome torment, Clemens put her through a real-world practice run on the way to the audition, "something I try with a character sometimes to see if I have the conviction to do it." Clemens stopped at a Starbucks, where, her Aussie accent supplanted by Tawney's timid Southern lilt, she placed her order: "I'd just like a coffee ... any coffee you got."
"The woman behind the counter just didn't have time for that. It was hilarious," recalls Clemens, who knows something the abrupt barista clearly didn't: Blessed are the meek.
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The largest crowd in Nationals Park history was on hand Tuesday night for the opener of the Washington Nationals first home series against the Boston Red Sox.
The variety of Red Sox paraphernalia on display suggested that many were going to see their first Washington Nationals presidents race, and Teddy Roosevelt — always the showman — set out to make an impression.
When the 4th inning race began, Teddy dashed out and hopped aboard a unicycle. Whether our #26 thought this would help him win the race is hard to say, but he gave it a valiant effort before falling quickly behind the other racing presidents.
Teddy gave up on the unicycle about half-way through the race, but it was far too late to catch up to Abe Lincoln, who has now won four of the last 5 races to take a commanding lead in the season standings.


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In the wake of Global Handwashing Day, the Hygiene Council has released more findings from its international HABIT Study (Hygiene: Attitudes, Behavior, Insight and Traits). Below are charts comparing handwashing and household hygiene scores for 12 countries.
Percentage of respondents who wash hands 5+ times daily
Percentage with High Household Hygiene Score
The research study sought to characterize the key determinants of personal and household hygiene behaviours that affect health cross-culturally; to pinpoint the key factors in different personalities and settings that determine hygiene behaviour, and highlight those that can be modified to improve health. The study was conducted from January to March 2011 by the Hygiene Council, an initiative sponsored by household, health and personal care producer Reckitt Benckiser.
Key results
Some 54 per cent of people surveyed globally reported good personal hygiene. Some of the findings that influenced hygiene scores were:
- Conscientious or nervous personality types reported experiencing 10 percent fewer colds than others.
- Those with good manners, such as covering their mouths when sneezing, were almost two-and-a-half times more likely to have good health.
- Hygiene habits varied by profession, with homemakers reporting the highest level of personal hygiene (64.5 percent) and students reporting the worst (44.5 percent).
For more findings see also UAE: Students learn good health goes hand in hand with hygiene (Sanitation Updates, 19 July 2011)
Study methodology
The questionnaire-based study, with 1,000 participants in each of 12 countries (12,000 total participants) involved 130 questions on hand-washing, surface cleaning and food preparation, handling and storage techniques, health problems and demographics. The countries involved were the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Australia, Brazil, China and India. Web-based questionnaire were complemented by telephone calls and face-to-face interviews were conducted in some markets (South Africa, Middle East, Malaysia, Brazil, China, and India). Standard multivariate statistical analyses were performed on the resulting datasets to determine how personality variation, hygiene practices, socio-economic factors and infectious disease outcomes inter-relate.
Related web sites:
- Hygiene Council (see also the country pages)
- Reckitt Benckiser – Lysol Mission for Health | Dettol – Mission for Health
Source: Hygiene Council, 14 Oct 2011 ; PRNewswire, 14 Oct 2011


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DR. DOG TO PLAY CONAN FEBRUARY 8TH Stream The Band's Upcoming New Album Be The Void In Its Entirety On Teamcoco.com January 31
Celebrated Philadelphia rock band Dr. Dog will release their raucous and vital new album Be The Void on February 7th via Anti-Records and will be performing live on CONAN February 8th. In anticipation of the appearance, Team Coco will be streaming the band's new record for an entire week beginning on Jan 31st.
To preview Dr. Dog's new album Be The Void care CONAN, go to:http://teamcoco.com/ or http://teamcoco.com/drdog
Dr. Dog will be taking their rollicking high energy live show on the road, performing across North America in support of this exhilarating new record.
Dr. Dog Tour Dates:
Feb 1 Columbus, OH Newport Music Hall
Feb 2 Lawrence, KS Granada Theatre
Feb 3 Boulder, CO Boulder Theater
Feb 4 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge
Feb 6 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom
Feb 7 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern
Feb 9 Santa Ana, CA The Observatory
Feb 10 Los Angeles, CA The Orpheum
Feb 11 San Francisco, CA Regency Ballroom
Feb 13 Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom
Feb 14 Seattle, WA The Neptune Theatre
Feb 17 Minneapolis, MN First Avenue
Feb 18 Chicago, IL The Vic
Feb 19 Cincinnati, OH 20th Century Theater
Mar 1 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls
Mar 2 Louisville, KY Headliners Music Hall
Mar 3 Nashville, TN War Memorial
Mar 4 Atlanta, GA Buckhead Theatre
Mar 5 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Soundstage
Mar 7 Mobile, AL Alabama Music Box
Mar 9 Austin, TX Stubb's Waller Creek Amph.
Mar 10 Houston, TX Fitzgerald's
Mar 11 Dallas, TX Granada Theatre
Mar 13 Columbia, MO The Blue Note
Mar 14 Indianapolis, IN Deluxe at Old Nation Centre
Mar 15 Asheville, NC Orange Peel
Mar 16 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
Mar 17 Baltimore, MD Rams Head Live
Mar 19 South Burlington, VT Higher Ground Ballroom
Mar 22 Boston, MA House of Blues
Mar 23 New York, NY Terminal 5
Mar 24 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory
Mar 25 Philadelphia, PA Electric Factory